Donald Knuth: “Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.”
We need to empower non-statisticians to perform their own data analyses in a reproducible way
R is traditionally known for having a steep learning curve, however:
Recent developments in the R ecosystem have made it more accessible, allowing us to efficiently teach R to non-statisticians